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“Well,” continued my new pal, “BirdGuides says it’s opposite us on the other bank.”
So I set up my scope, checked my guidebook and found the prime suspect. A bundle of brown and grey feathers was having a snooze among the flooded tree roots.
The most distinctive characteristic of the ring-necked duck is the band near the end of its beak (Image: Getty )
Its most distinctive characteristic is a white band near the end of its beak. Of course, it was sleeping with its beak tucked under its wing.
When God was allocating the patience gene he decided to miss me out. So I spent 30 frustrating minutes waiting for this exotic to move.
TAX cuts should be used as weapons in the war on climate change, a top Tory has told MPs. Just days before the Budget, Philip Dunne backed the Daily Express call for incentives for people to go green.
And we owe Dale Vince a great deal for turning what we feel into so simple a concept.
He saw that if human beings are going to save the natural world and protect the planet which sustains our lives, that aim has got to affect everything we do. That’s why the Government must make it easier and cheaper to do the right thing and harder and more expensive to trash nature or pollute our rivers and oceans.
We can see where that’s already working. Take electric cars. Renewable electricity means driving without the dangerous emissions from an internal combustion engine. That’s why the Government says that after 2030 we shall not be able buy petrol or diesel cars.
“We are seeing this becoming more and more of an issue in the countryside, with rural communities experiencing what is tantamount to a fly-tipping farm-aggedon.”
DCN, which represents 187 district councils in England responsible for clearing up fly-tipping and littering, said the littering of face masks and other Personal Protective Equipment was a growing problem in their local communities.
The group called on the Government to provide more funding to “wage war” on fly-tippers and polluters.
Mr Humphreys said: “As we come out of the pandemic, the government needs to make sure districts have the funding certainty to be able to wage war on fly-tippers on a scale which will ensure communities have a safe and clean environment they are proud to call home.”